Other Ways to Say “Hello” with Teacher Robin

See Transcript  

Hello, welcome to another class. I’m Robin and today we are going to talk about “other ways to say “hello”. I have chosen this topic because World Hello Day is actually celebrated on November 21st. So the challenge of this day is to say “hello” to 10 people. Now this could be in person, virtually, it doesn’t matter. Okay, so this, this day promotes communication and peace around the world. Okay, so today, we are going to look at all of the different ways or many of the different ways that you can say, “hello”. I’m going to give you some formal ways and some informal ways. 

Okay, so instead of saying “hello”, which is fine, but there are many other options we have “Hello“, “Hi“, “Hey”. We also have “Hey there”. This is informal. Okay. “Hey, man” or “Hey, girl”. This is something you would say to your friends or people you know, very well. “Hey, man”, “Hey, girl” you would not say at work or to your boss. Okay, so it’s an informal kind of greeting. “Hey, man”, “Hey, girl”. 

Okay, a formal greeting could be “Good morning”, “Good afternoon”, or “Good evening”. Okay, this is another way to say “hello”. Instead of saying “Hello”, you could say “Good morning.”

Some more informal ways to say “hello”. Okay, this is a bit more slang. You can say “What’s up?” Or even “Sup?” This is slang. Okay, if you say to someone, “Sup?” it means “What’s up?” or “Hello”. “What’s new?” “What’s going on?” “How’s it going?” “How are things?” Okay, these are all casual ways to say “hello” to someone. If you have not seen the person in a while, maybe several weeks or months, you could say “Long time no see”. Okay, that means I haven’t seen you in a long time. So another way of saying “hello” to this person, you could say “Long time no see.”

More informal ways to say hello are “You okay?” “You alright?” Okay, so this is something you would say to a friend, informal. In Australia, they say “G’day mate”. This is a common greeting in Australian English. We also have “Hiya”, for example. And my personal favorite is “Howdy”. This is another way to say “hello”. and it’s very popular in the south of the United States. I am from Texas, if you didn’t know, and this is a very common greeting in Texas. “Howdy”, okay. If you watch cowboy films and things like that, you’ll notice that a lot of these people from the south or cowboys, etc. will say “Howdy” and if they’re wearing a hat, they will lower their hat. 

Okay, so now I want you to do this challenge and you can do it in the comments with each other. I want you to greet people using other ways to say “hello” and on the 21st I hope that you will say hello to at least 10 people virtually or in person to promote communication and peace around the world. Okay, so I hope that you learned something new in this class, a new way to say “hello”. I hope you will use it and write your comments and I will see you next week. Take care. Bye!